The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-06-20
NEW YoRKs ARIZONA INTEREST.
Some Interesting Gossip About Specu-
lations and Spectators.

Some Interesting Gossip About Specu-
lations and Spectators.
New YORK, June 1S-It is almost inn
possible to kill a regular promoter / en-
countered to-day one of the olden-time lob
byists, known in the days when Congress
voted millions of acres away every week,
when large accounts were being settled, fat
contracts given out and money galore
was wasted by our 'Uncle Sam" on all
sides have not seen OF heard of this par
ticular specimen of his class for more than
ten years and now he turns up here i'll New
York with tremendous Arizona mine that
has millions in it." Perhaps it has, but, as
an old mining man, | doubt. There are a
lot of ''specs" getting ready for the New
York market, and most of them have
the Arizona brand on them. My
acquaintance told me of a num-
Der of New York men who are quite
active in that distant Territory, and of
some who have made their pile" or are in
fair way of doing so. One of these is well
know i'll New York He is ex-Assistant
District Attorney, and is reported to be
''soid in copper" at this date Arizona has
developed as a great copper region. During
the last Geronimo Apache raid our legal
miner came near losing his life. The latest
arrival undertook to tell me of some of the
perils he had encountered. but suddenly re-
Numbering that knew every section of the
territory, turned his narrative off with a
joke. Arizona miners are still matter of
doubt, though there can be no question of
the mineral riches of that region boom
has been planned by the promoters this
! market, but the latest Apache raid threat
ems to knock it 'endwise."
| New Workers generally and particularly,
so busily engaged as they are, have very
little knowledge of the ''out o. door" which
is contributory to their great city. Take
any one for an example. The oldest mining
region within the boundaries of the Union
| it is yet the least known. Mines were being
successfully worked in the Santa Rita Noun
tains where the last dispatches report the
marauding Apaches as staying ranchmen
as far back as the early fifties, by men then
as well known in New York as Colt, the
gun man; Heintzleman, the old soldier; Gil
bert ID. Hopkins, of the Old Travellers
Club; Charles d. Poston and Others who
will be recalled by veterans here. The old
files of the New York Herald contain many
columns of exceedingly interesting letters
from the "Gadsden purchase, when around
it and New Mexico centred the territorial
ambitions of the ante-bellum Southern lead
ers. At the Fifth Avenue Hotel meet almost
daily group of well-llnown men who are
all becoming deeply interested i'll the same
region. Ex-senator Dorsey, Gen. Marshall,
be named. Col Sykes, once known as the
publisher of "Briclxl Pomeroys Daily
Democrat, has large interest in Calabasas,
| a name and locale which has become well
knownkn connection with Apache news and
raids. CalabaSas was a Spanish frontier
post $50 years ago. and there are evidences
| there of extensive mining operations for the
period and appliances. All of these interests
have been "watered" and nurtured for
81 70. fba
ern boom The operators have been baked
again by the hostile Apache reports.
| 1t is a curious fact that not only in Ari-
IONA the Oldest portion of our mining re-
! gions, butit is the seat of old ruins and has
been scourged by the oldest and most con-
tinuous of aboriginal fighters The Apaches
were on the warpath when Cortez occupied
the valley of Mexico, and later when Coro-
nado marched TO capture the seven cities of
Chibola. They have been fighting with
short intervals ever since. This last raid is
the most mysterious one of all recent out
| breaks, If the reports now current be in any
way correct. The mining men now in this
city are greatly alarmed, and they have rea-
son to be, provided the reports are true.
The routes indicated as taken by the Apache
raiders will strike at the more
iona, and are right in the way of
the new mining speculations that are
being so carefully nuised for market. But
the probabilities are that there is great ex-
aggeration. The White Mountain reserva-
tion has on il about 5000 Apaches, men,
women and children. No report has been
received from San Carlos or any of the sub
agencies from the civil or military officers
there as TO the absence of any marked
number of Indians. If 100 bucks had
absented themselves these officials would
know it. But they gave no sign. / sug-
gested this TO my friend, the promoter, and
he left me little comforted. The situation
is becoming interesting, and / shall now
watch the movement Of Arizona ''mines'
with more than the languid interest have
felt OF late years.
RICHARD J. HINTON.
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